It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated.
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
I loved every minute of my time at Microsoft, but I had always envisioned having another phase of life just because I thought that would be interesting. It had never been my plan to work until I literally didn't want to do anything and then hang it up.
Microsoft, by some accounts, the second most capitalized company on the planet, is the only corporate colossus in history whose entire product line could be eliminated with a giant magnet.
One of the ways that Microsoft beat Apple way back in the day was that they were a lot more open; today, in the world I come from, the free software and open-source world, Microsoft is not generally viewed as open; they're viewed as proprietary.
I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft-a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.
In my opinion MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems.
A breakthrough in machine learning would be worth ten Microsofts.
Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever. . . unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.
If Microsoft is the new IBM, Google is the new Microsoft - the defining company of the industry.
Today, we have our own concentrations of economic power. Instead of Standard Oil, U. S. Steel, the Union Pacific Railroad, and J. P. Morgan and Company, we have Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft.
Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease.
Take our 20 best people away, and I will tell you that Microsoft will become an unimportant company
Mac OS is just as vulnerable as Microsoft Windows
Microsoft, Yahoo and others are helping to institutionalize and legitimize the integration of censorship into the global IT business model.
Microsoft's new OS, Windows 7, may finally be a worthy successor to XP, eliminating the clutter of Vista and letting users get to what they want to use without the fuss. All this, while remaining compatible with their IT departments' demands for scalability and custom implementations.
Let me be clear - Microsoft has no beef with open source.
MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.
Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.
You can't please everybody, Microsoft. So stop trying.